New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-22
BERLIN AGAINST BISMARCK.
LITTLE INDICATION OF HOW THE GER
MAN ELECTIONS ARE GOING.


LITTLE INDICATION OF HOW THE GER
MAN ELECTIONS ARE GOING.
GENERAL Won MoLTKE ON THE IssUE-THE ARMY
MUST HAVE PERMANKNCE-THE CHAM
CELLoR WILL HAVE TO GAIN
THIRTY VOTES.
BrRIJN. Feb 22.-The prospects of the success
of the Septennists in the present election contest
in Germany are good. A feature of the elections
il the unusual number of second ballots necessary
n fact which proves the closeness of the contests
The formidable increase in the number OF social
lists throughout the Empire is a prominent 1ac"
The excitement in Berlin yesterday was INTENSE
All the approaches to the palaces OF Emperor
William Crown Prince Frederick William anu
Prince Bismarck were barred by police
An analysis of the polling shows that tho
contest was unprecedentedly stubborn. As The
NIGHT advanced the excitement in the city be-
came intense Thousands Of people surroundcd
the newspaper offices awaiting special editions
giving election returns. 1t is stated that singer
and Hascnclevcr have each over 10000 majority
in this city.
Second ballots are necessary in Kocnigsberg
Ilberfcld Breslau Lubbock, Dresden, Allstadt
Frankfort, Dantzic, Stettin, Cologne and Municf.
septcnnists expected in Bremen, Leipsc ana
brunswick The Socialist organization has been
TO the polls in battalions. Two Socialists are
returned for Brcslau Richter is returned Tor
Hagen Prince Bismarck, appearing nj his
polling place in the second division III TINS Guy
was greeted with storm of cheers According
to the re-ballot arrangements it is probable THAI
Berlin will be represented by three New German
Liberals and three Socialists.
BERLIN, Feb. ol.-The elections in this city re-
suited unfavorably for all the Government candi
l,x-ic; anpA hn1l N
will be necessary, but in each of these divisions
the anti-Septennate candidate has at present Il
majority In the first division KlOtz New Ger
man Liberal has 1882 and Zedlz Neuliirch sep
tennist zoos q second ballot is thus necessary.
In the second division Virchow New German Lib
craD received l6439 and Wolff (Scptennst) 16,
l0s another ballot is necessary. In the third
division Muncl<el (New German Libcral received
lO,400 and Christensen tSccialist) $3.50; there
will be another ballot. In the fourth division IL
is reported that the Socialist Singer is elected
but the official returns from the division have
not yet been received. In the fifth district Baum
bach New German LbelaD has 10,076 and Major
Blume tSeptennist) 1909. In the sixth division
Hasenclever iSocialist) is elected by largo
majority over Grellng New German Libcral and
Haltz Septennist).
The net result of the Berlin voting is as foows
Socialist 90 1O7, gain of %. .0O0 Scptennist, Co.,
SIS: New German Liberal. 65.sS4. The Govern
mcnt parties have gained 13 600 votes and the New
German Liberals have lost 5000. The re-
turns from the provinces show losses by
the New German Liberals Herr Richter's organ
the Fesinage Zeitune consoles the party by dccar-
ing that the Socialists proited by Radical disas-
ters This, however. is not exactly the case. Com
bined the Conservatives and National Liberal sup
porters of the septennate secured many seats,
though there is no clear prospect of their having
working majority, as the Centrlsts seem
to have voted in undimiDished numbers
Farckenbeck Bamberger, Stauffenberg and Cen
eral Won Moltke were reelected. Metz elected
Antoine. the antI-German Siegen returned
Ytocker The result in Hamburg is triumph for
the Social Democrats, two of whose candidates
are returned by large majoritles In the tbird
Hamburg division the Socialist candidate Is ahead'
but a second ballot is necessary.
In Strasburg Kab6 Centrist, received S,2G2, and
Petri 6,698 AlX-la- Chapelie returns Centrist
and Nuremberg returns Socialist
A leafet recently issued by the New German
Liberals stated that the question of peace or war
did MT lei end upon whether the peace effective
was fixed FIR three or seven years. The "Lies-
nitzer Zeisung' referred the statement to Count
Won MoltHc, who tclcgraphed the following reply :
"Ihe peace effective is certainly the same whether
il be sanctioned for seven for three years. But
as regards the strength, the former term
gives more than double the number OF ti'lneu re-
serves as compared with the shorter pell0d. Nlth
the army there must be pcrmanencc. 1t cannot
be rcmodelcd every three years in conformity
with parliamentary resolutions.
The National Zcitung' says that French So
cialist societies have addressed manifesto to
their partisans in GeImany, thus interfering with
the electoral struggle and further that some
Lode Of the American Knights Of Labor have
issued a manifesto and forwarded contributors
1fetu ..t afn lnnfTf plS Il
dcncc that the charter Of social democracy is not
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